Cantor polynomials for semigroup sectors

Abstract

A packing function on a set Omega in R^n is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of lattice points in Omega and the set N_0 of nonnegative integers. It is proved that if r and s are relatively prime positive integers such that r divides s-1, then there exist two distinct quadratic packing polynomials on the sector {(x,y) \in \R^2 : 0 \leq y \leq rx/s}. For the rational numbers 1/s, these are the unique quadratic packing polynomials. Moreover, quadratic quasi-polynomial packing functions are constructed for all rational sectors.